Page 207 - The Walking Dread

Author Notes:

Recently, the Brony Bookclub podcast mentioned the comic (for the second time, in fact), and even brought up a few D&D stories of their own! I try not to revel in this stuff too much, but I think the storytelling makes it worth it this time around.

You can watch the whole episode here (it's kinda interesting, covering a lot of alternative media in the fandom), or just watch the Friendship is Dragons and D&D storytelling part here.

I can confirm this as well, at least for my character. In my L5R game I keep mentioning, we recently took in a 12-year-old Crab girl named Inishi who is a blacksmithing genius, after another player and I ended up getting her grandfather tortured and killed in front of her. No, we didn't send a hit on him so we could get a free blacksmith, he was killed so the ninjas following us could tamper with the new armor they were making for us and to set up a trap for when we came to get it. So yeah, it took some convincing to get her to stay with us and not just jump off our boat.

This all happened around a week ago in game, so she's still getting used to us, but she's already making plans to build a small forge in the hull of our ship, so she's probably here to stay. My character, Moto Ganbaatar, would like to adopt her and raise her as his own, as he feels responsible for her situation and has a kind, nurturing nature when it comes to children (he bred and raised warhorses for the Utaku before the game began). Unfortunately, she associates what happened to her with Gan, and rightly so, so I may have to just find her someplace else to live, possibly under a new teacher.

Wow, that really got away from me... Anyway, since she joined us, Gan has become much more concerned with the safety and well being of the other members of the crew, especially Inishi, and has become more willing to take on the biggest, toughest enemies himself, so the others are in less danger.

tl,dr: We pick up a little girl we accidentally orphaned, my character wants to adopter her, and her presence has changed the way my character acts.

I once ran an X-Files game where the PCs found a near-literal "Cabbage Patch Kid" in a mad scientist's lab. Basically the kid was grown in a genetically modified watermelon and was raised by the mad scientist's robot servants.

Then come along the PCs who smash the 'bots and get the scientist killed by accidently BSODing his teleporter.
They took the kid in and named her Rufus (They're worse than I am with names). She about 8-years old and was of average intelligence, but sorely lacked social skills.

Poor girl. Her social role models for the game were a tom-boy firefighter, a perpetually drunk physicist, a PTSD soldier, and an alien archeologist who had a thing for cats (delicious).

I had a character that felt fairly responsible towards a party member that was a kid. After the kid died later in the campaign he ended up joining a terrorist organization, became a blackguard, and returned as a villain to nearly kill one of the new party members, before getting captured by the fantasy cia. Kids cause crazy situations lol.

Good to see your comic is becoming more well known. I've been a long time reader, and it has certainly brightened up my day on more than one occasion. Like say right now, when I have to be at work in half an hour.

I'm that guy who runs that podcast he linked to. Today was less, "Oh, I'm glad more people will read his comic." and more, "What the what the what, people mentioned our crappy little show?" And yes, FiD has brightened many a brony's day. Celestia's speed Newbiespud!

Can Sneak:
Pinkie Pie - what darkwulf23 said.
Fluttershy - (show) does it count as sneaking when no one notices you even if you aren't trying to sneak? I think so. (comic) no one even noticed she'd rolled for nature till she shouted.

Can't Sneak:
Rainbow Dash - (show) She's loud, likes to strut, and is eager to mix it up. No rogue for you. (comic) Name one situation where that coloration would give you a stealth bonus.
Rarity - (show) How could I POSSIBLY hide this beautiful dress? I worked SO hard on it! (Obviously can sneak in the comic, as she's the rogue.)

Can: Pinkie and Twilight (show) for not getting caught in the Canterlot Archives until Twilight rolled a nat 1.

Cann't: Rainbow Dash (show) for constantly getting found by Pinkie in Griffon the Brush Off and Party of One.
Applejack (show) for getting found within seconds of the other ponies arriving in Dodge Junction.

If no:

Can: Twilight and Pinkie for above.
Fluttershy (show) for constantly being overlooked in Dragonshy and for somehow getting inside the library without anyone noticing in Episode 1.

Z:"These ponies pursue me, what is their goal?
Do they think I am a threat on my stroll?
Humph.For years, they refuse to meet my gaze.
Perhaps even now they should not know my ways.
But how to dissuade them, but cause no harm to these folk?
Ah, of course, the answer is simple: Poison Joke!"

Jim: [consoling Bart] What did you expect? "Welcome, sonny"? "Make yourself at home"? "Marry my daughter"? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

Clearly Rainbow Dash thinks that Zecora thinks they're all playing a game of Mafia. Zecora is obviously the Doctor, and so is interested in prolonging her survival because her skills will aid the town more than a simple Townie. Twilight is the Cop, and has identified Zecora as innocent, but can't be too obvious lest she look suspicious, or get offed by the mafia during the night. And, of course, the Mafia members are none other than... Applejack and Rarity. Applejack aggressively accuses Zecora, while Rarity passively denies, thus disassociating herself both with Applejack, and with the accusation against Zecora, all the while keeping her argument low key so that it doesn't garner much support. Once Zecora turns up as innocent, suspicion will turn toward both Applejack and Apple Bloom, who were both heavily involved in her lynching, albeit on opposite sides of the argument. Knowing this, the mafia will opt to off someone during the night that will deflect suspicion from Applejack and towards one of the other townsponies.

Seriously, this game is stacked against the townsponies, but that only makes it more epic when they win.

I've only been in one game worth mentioning, and I'm still in it now. All my stories are in L5R, because the few games I've done in Pathfinder have all been pretty lame and boring, for me at least. I recommend making lots of nerdy friends and asking them about playing table top.

My experience so far is 1 D&D 4.0 game that died before the start of the 2nd encounter, and now a Pathfinder game that is struggling to keep going, a Shadowrun game that lost 2 of its players(one for good, one temporarily), and... that is it for actual RP's I am involved with, though I may soon join a Deathwatch game.

Hey! I'm from the south, and we haven't had a lynch mob in almost ten years!

Seriously, it's actually illegal to lynch anyone, regardless of race, even if they're a mass murdering terrorist with a necklace of skulls harvested from infants stolen from the arms of their mothers while still in the maternity ward, and plays Bieber and Jessica Black at 120 decibels from their car stereo at 2AM.

Even if lynching is bad in general, and everything other than the Justin Bieber and Jessica Black thing is made up, there are times when it should totally be okay. Like playing terrible music really loud and not letting me sleep at all.

Edit: On second thought: it wasn't only Jo Anne; instead, Laugh-In had the format of splicing together two different people saying the first and second halves of words, so one would say "Tea" followed by another saying "Cup."
It works out the same thing, though.